#he'd really hate it without eli

[misterbenzadrine]

pov: demetri went to mit without eli

[lelelego]

is there a canon ending you have in mind for Eli and Boone?

god yeah. i'm gonna put this under a cut because it turned into a long one. this is not just the ending but the stuff leading up to it. word vomit galore

just want to reiterate this is all in my insaneo mode head and simply fnv eli's timeline as far as i'm concerned

in a nutshell eli decides an independent vegas is ultimately the best for the residents. he has a hard time deciding between an ncr rule (a somewhat more organized freeside and new vegas, and potentially more resources aside from energy), but seeing firsthand the idiocy operating under the monolith, incompetence, and corruption, does he decide to help the followers of the apocalypse establish control over the area with the help of the king, since julie farkas and the king are both actual people of authority who the people of freeside respect.

when eli tells boone he's not going to help the ncr, boone's conflicted. he's been following eli around because (1) eli makes good on his promise re:fighting the legion, (2) eli is a legion magnet because caesar + lanius hate his guts and keep sending hit squads after his ass, and (3) he genuinely thinks eli will die without him. (none of this is related to the fact that boone enjoys his company, obviously. not even a little bit. obviously.) he's torn between the ncr, the only system he knows, and the person who stands as the trigger of the largest political change in the region. is he responsible for changing this person's mind? does he want to change eli's mind? he doesn't know shit about the ramifications of the ncr leaving, nor the ncr staying. is he just following orders again? despite what happens at bitter springs (hopeful ending) he can't really let the idea of the nation he grew up with go.

so at the end of second battle of hoover dam, the ncr gets chased out (mostly). eli still doesn't really know where boone stands regarding the ncr, because for all his talk and bluster he doesn't want boone to dislike him for prying (which has happened already before). forgive him, he's got a big fat crush that won't go away on the guy. he's tired. he's hungry. he's thirsty. but all he can do is think, "boone's going to follow them back." which is when the picture above happens. he snaps back to his senses obviously, because what right does he have to ask something like that?

but boone stays. eli goes to talk to julie and he's there. eli sits at the tops in benny's workshop for days, programming and reprogramming systems for the securitrons and tinkering with finer motor controls and he's there. eli negotiates with the crimson caravan and he's there. eli is confused but yknow. what is he going to do talk to the brick wall of a man about his feelings??

boone sees what eli does for the people of freeside. even helps, sometimes, even though the only thing he thinks he's good at is killing. he thinks, is this what being better is? is this what amends are? but like a reoccuring rash he gets the Itch. thinks about the ncr. about manny. they could enlist back into first recon, easy. he goes back to novac to look over things he'd left there, things he used when he'd freshly left first recon, spends the night in his old room.

only he can't sleep. he can't sleep because he can't hear the sound of eli playing some shitty video game on his pipboy. he can't hear eli and veronica arguing over which snack is the best for the road, or eli tuning ED-E to different frequencies to see what he can pick up. he can't see eli going to the bathroom what feels like every 5 minutes because of his wacked out digestive system. he can't hear eli cursing as he tries to take off his leg brace only for something to get stuck, and then him rustling around for his tools, not being able to find the right one, and then jamming whatever he can find in the joint to get it unstuck.

so he goes back to new vegas, and when he sees eli's smile when eli sees him, dirty and sweaty from working, he knows it's an easy choice to make.

(yes they eventually do h*ld h*nds. when is that? i don't know. when IS that. someone tell me please)

after that eli and boone stay in vegas for a bit to get everything as stable as possible, even though it's an uphill, impossible challenge, and then i think eventually eli's curiosity would get the better of them when he's a little older and he'd leave to find different things to prod and look at with boone at his side :^)

[asher-writes]

16, 18, and 21 if you have something you want to talk about! :)

16. Did you ever change an oc's identity when they were already established? Why?

Yes! I did! Edward was initially gay and then I made him bisexual after writing one too many throuple fics. Him and Neptune just have great chemistry, especially with the whole love/hate thing at the beginning. And April was initially aroace but then I got mad at how underrepresented hypersexuality is as a trauma response, and he accidentally became the horniest one. And Eli's sexuality doesn't get out right addressed BUT he had a crush on Alicia when he thought he was a boy, and initially that was never mentioned so I presumed he was straight. But no. That boy likes kissin boys.

18. Do you prefer to give your ocs specific labels, or keep it unspecified? Why? If applicable, do you change their labels depending on circumstance?

Unspecified because my sexuality is super messy half the time, and I feel seen with my characters. I also like how they mess up their own labels a little, or invent words that suit them? In their world this stuff doesn't matter much, and for the people it does matter to (Eli, Ari) it's in a context of homophobia. Eli, like, I genuinely don't think he thinks about it, largely because he is functionally demisexual, and he definitely does not have that word. He also doesn't care. Ari, on the other hand? He's not going to feel too comfortable identifying with words that have filled him with self-hatred for years. It's just not in his personality, because he's naturally very self loathing and if he wants to move away from that it has to be very definitive like "these are not words I use for myself." We would probably categorise him as bisexual, but he would likely use an entire definition instead of an all-encompassing word. He's very direct, so I can imagine that if he were asked, he'd respond with "I am often interested in the aesthetic qualities of both men and women." Aesthetic is key here. Because Ari would never really openly talk about his sexual desires, and he has them, but not sexual attraction. When it comes down to it, the words he uses are very purposeful - "beautiful," "enchanting," "delightful," - because he views people in the same vein that someone might view art. There's an aesthetic beauty to the human body, but he actually finds genitals a little weird, too. This could be because of his very sex-negative upbringing but later on, I can promise you, this man likes sex. He's like a feral little puppy once he gets a taste of it. He just also functionally finds it weird. He finds his enjoyment of it weird, to the point of scientific analysis (his conclusion is that pleasure must be as functionally important to the survival of the human race as producing offspring, for desire and attraction to vary so greatly across the human race). April is very blunt about his sexuality on many occasions. He flirts with men, women, robots, on every available opportunity. Jokingly, I think his sexuality is just "daddy issues." Or lack thereof. He describes his romantic attraction as "romance-less" and "without love". In a conversation with Ember, he also explains that he isn't capable of viewing one person as more important than another, with the same intense longing to protect and be cared for by every person he meets. I didn't project on him, shut up /j Another interesting one is January, who is aroace, and was initially just aro, but I had so much fun writing a backstory for an oversexualised character who went the polar opposite to April and never wanted to fuck again, that i spilled the Complexities Jar. And he became aroace. And he is by far one of my more interesting people to write when it comes to relationships. I fuckin love April and January's QPR. I love how they navigate a tower of boundaries with careful conversation and a little bit of fucking up and apologising. And January, who so eloquently states his boundaries, absolutely bewilders April, who has never set a boundary ever because nobody taught him how to love himself. :/ Put them all in therapy I can't stop being mean to my characters. Anyway, that was an essay. Next question.

21. Free ramble card wee

So anyway, April and January and Ember. I think there's a lot of one dimensionality to how people can portray aro characters without really exploring the complexities and passions that can be found in QPRS. Especially when it comes to aro characters who aren't ace. Ironically, I think January's asexuality - which forces April to find new ways of establishing meaning for someone he cares about, and wants to enjoy being around - teaches April more about sex than he ever really knew. His and Ember's relationship is so full of turmoil. They both care about each other, insanely deeply; but neither of them can take care of themselves, let alone each other. They're obsessive, anxious, often angry at each other for completely avoidable things, and then there's the realisation that April is so used to fucking his way out of situations that he does inevitably see sex as more of a poker chip than an act of intimacy. And then January comes along and he's like, actually I would like to show you the stars from the tower, and I will tell you all I know about them (Not to be autistic but infodumping is its own love language). April is bewildered. He gets confused, he assumes that January wants sex, gets upset when he's rejected because he feels he isn't good enough, and physically can't wrap his head around the idea that someone can just want to be around him. (We see in book three that April even purposefully flirts with Ari, knowing it makes him uncomfortable, because he finds it comforting to be reminded that he doesn't see him as a sex object). January relays this observation back to Ember and it fuckin breaks Ember's heart like. What do you mean he's not having sex because he enjoys it?? It's a ploy?? And then Ember has to figure out new boundaries and understand new things about April that neither of them were aware of. They're such a fuckin mess! And that's without including the "I would kill for you / I would die for you / I would burn down the sky for you." which is the AprilEmber trademark. I'm sleep deprived. I love my murderous qpr.

[soulsxng]

❣ (Jassie and Kamii?)

@feraecor | Injury starters | Accepting!

"Eli was in a mood, and I had to get in the middle of it...again." Something that Ahnia's king didn't look all too thrilled about, as he was sat in front of his very unimpressed wife. "And before you ask, no I don't know what his deal was this time-- stress over some of the new duties I had to give him, with all the shit going on with the Corruption, maybe."

Jas shook his head, turning his head from one side to the other, lifting his arms, moving his clothes out of the way of wounds; whatever Kamii asked of him as she looked him over.

It wouldn't take her very long, were she to just heal him in one big burst, but some of the wounds Nielis was capable of inflicting could be...complicated, to say the least. Healing the more obvious damage without care could just lead to more issues later on.

That was probably why she looked so irked by it. That, and the fact that Jas was almost certain she knew that he had taken a blast or two outright, just to limit some of the damage to the castle and its staff.

"...He'd better not start this shit again. As if all of us, including him, don't already have enough on our plate without having to worry about that."

It was days like this that he hated being king. That he wished he had passed the responsibility on to someone else. In all honesty, he wasn't really sure why he hadn't done that in the first place...a sense of responsibility? Loyalty to his people? Who knows. He tried not to think about the why of it too much. Not like it would change anything now.

"Have you heard from JJ or Tia since yesterday? I haven't yet, but...I was hoping they might have talked to you or Nethe."

[little-earthquakes-rp]

Immediately a door slammed in his face, it was not the welcome he was hoping for upon finding Ely. He stood on the front doorstep of the expansive mansion flabbergasted that his effort had led to nothing. Never one to give up he continued to knock intermittently before taking short breaks sitting on the front stoop. Just when he was about to give up hope a strike of lightning ripped through the clouds causing the house to shudder, and he almost jumped out of his skin. Suddenly, the door finally opened and he walked in with a reluctant hostess.

Finally, seeing her in real life all the illusions of dreams were gone. She was so incredibly beautiful but the small purple crescent under her eyes told a story. Grateful that she agreed to at least let him in after a brief tour he dropped his bag in the guest room next to her own. He did not want to get lost in this place after all. Walking out he caught her standing in the doorway as she asked a rapid-fire set of questions. Putting his hands in his back pockets he sighed, "As long as it takes." Honestly, he only had three days because of his practice but he'd hate for her to delay and wait him out.

Leaning against the doorframe he smirked, "Wards? What wards? I saw this place in a dream. Flew out and Uber myself here. Granted the driver thought I was nuts and didn't see the estate. He thought he was dropping me off in the middle of a forest." He paused as all mirth left his face, he took a more serious tone. "Someone or something wanted me to see. Maybe you and you don't even know it." He wasn't trying to be cocky it really could've been her subconscious pulling him in.

None of his answers seemed good enough, but whether she believed it or not; something was at play here. They were connected somehow. The moment she started digging at him he started walking down the hall albeit slowly before he turned to the final question. "Godly parent? No. I'm just a witch, Ely. One that uses their gifts to help others, and I want to help you. If you will let me."

Honestly, he was famished and he turned back around and continued walking before he asked, "What do you have to eat in this place anyways?" He was kind of hoping to segway into another conversation because he didn't want to explain he only knew half his family tree. He'd always felt pangs of shame when people found out he grew up without a father.

Elysia was in the middle of reading yet another book, getting lost in the words, letting herself delve into another world entirely that was made up of words and the images in her mind. It distracted her from her wildly racing mind or the dark depths of her trauma.

Her estate was warded heavily. No one with even a hint of magic in their soul could get through. Not even if they muted it entirely. The place was glamoured to humans, portraying itself as an empty field of no interest. They were magicked to find reason to stay away from the area and so Elysia was rather comfortable in knowing she'd be left alone.

That is, until she heard the knock. Elysia, who had been deep into her novel, dropped it in complete surprise - utterly BAFFLED and wondering if she imagined it entirely. Tuning in, she did indeed sense a presence at the door and a scowl formed on her lips. Who in the fuck got past her wards?? Not even a GOD could --

Elysia froze after she yanked open the door, met with a sight that was supposed to be just a figment of her imagination. Her eyes widened, looking like a deer caught in headlights, as he spoke. There was a long, long pause between them, her right eye twitching periodically as she struggled to find the words to speak.

Her hand swung, slamming the door in his face.

That was some hours ago, but Skye managed to get himself invited in and settled. Elysia was on the other side of the hallway, standing like she was ready to pounce if he made a wrong move. "How long do you plan on staying here? How did you get past the wards again, Mr. Astral Projector?"

Elysia had 27 vacant bedrooms in this massive estate. And he chose the one that was right next to hers. "This ain't a hotel. And I don't need a doctor. Who is your godly parent?" She was firing off questions in her demanding voice, trying to make up for the show of vulnerability she displayed to a VERY real person in her dreams less than 24 hours ago.

[rusty-phasma]

Nsfw alphabet for Eli Sunday

A/n: i wanted to write for Eli and i love alphabets, i may write something fluffy for him soon.

Wanings: smut, unprotected sex, stds are no joke, please use protection. MINORS DO NOT INTERACT

A = Aftercare (what they’re like after sex)

I think he is definitely great at it he will always ask if you are hurt, if he was too rough, or if you need water, he will always keep a small towel on his bureau to clean you both up, he will hug you and play with your hair absently while you both fall asleep cuddling.

B = Body part (their favorite body part of theirs and also their partner’s)

I think on himself i think his hands, they are long and thin, and on you i peg him as a thighs man, he loves your thighs. He also likes your ass, but he likes your thighs more.

C = Cum (anything to do with cum, basically)

Inside your cunt, all the time, he absolutely loves breeding you, he'll even edge himself when you give him oral so that he'll get to cum inside your pussy.

D = Dirty secret (pretty self explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)

He is secretly a sub, he loves it when you take control of the situation, he also loves to see you on top and he hasn't told you but he would like you to choke him while you ride him.

E = Experience (how experienced are they? do they know what they’re doing?)

He is not experienced, he's just found books and things of the sort, i headcanon him as the kind of people that just knows what they want and for some reason is good at it naturally, but you are gonna have to show him where the clit is.

F = Favorite position (this goes without saying)

I think he would love to see you from below so cowgirl definitely. If he's too pent up doggy style, and who could forget the good old mating press.

G = Goofy (are they more serious in the moment? are they humorous? etc.)

He is never humorous, he is a 100% serious and that is okay.

H = Hair (how well groomed are they? does the carpet match the drapes? etc.)

I think he's very well groomed, he either has no pubes or really trims them down, i think he'd really hate to look unkept for himself.

I = Intimacy (how are they during the moment? the romantic aspect

I think it depends how he's feeling that day, if he's feeling up to it he'll be really romantic, praising you and all, but if he's not oh boy, he lets out all of his angers and frustration on your body.

J = Jack off (masturbation headcanon)

It depends i think, if he has you, he will not really jerk off, but if you are not there for him, he will do it almost daily, he is quite young after all.

K = Kink (one or more of their kinks)

To start off, hierophilia, because what's a preacher if not turned on by religious things, he likes to have you praying while he eats you or will pray while he fucks you, to either thank God or to ask for forgiveness, that and i think that seeing you down on your knees praying will make him go hard. I think that he'd also have a breeding kink, he cumming inside you and the idea of you all swollen and heavy with his child will have him really close to cumming. Also i peg him as an exhibitionist, i think.

L = Location (favorite places to do the do)

Again, i headcanon him as a slight exhibitionist so everywhere as long as you are both safe. But he specially loves to do it in his church.

M = Motivation (what turns them on, gets them going)

Oh, i think it is easier to list the things that don't turn him on. He gets hot under the collar just seeing you pray, seeing you cook, or just smile, he is as i said very repressed, and i will die on that hill, repression creates kinky people and perverts, i headcanon him as both. I also think he's got a thing for degrading, he'll call you a little slut and a sinner.

N = No (something they wouldn’t do, turn offs)

I think he would never actually do something that hurt you, or others. Also i think he wouldn't really engage in truly disgusting practices.

O = Oral (preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.)

He loves giving and receiving, but i think he would make you pray while you sit on his face, something about how blasphemous that is turns him on even more, so he will definitely make you cum as you shakily say amen between moans.

P = Pace (are they fast and rough? slow and sensual? etc.)

Again, it does depend on how he's feeling and if he's had a good day, if he had one, he'll go slow and sensual, but if he had a bad day, then he'll probably be fast and rough.

Q = Quickie (their opinions on quickies, how often, etc.)

Yes. And everywhere, i think he prefers really fucking you though, as much as he loves dragging you behind buildings and hills to relieve himself a bit, leaving his cum running down your thighs, he likes it more when he has you sprawled before him, being able to make you orgasm time and time again.

R = Risk (are they game to experiment? do they take risks? etc.)

Oh he's very open, like, Paul did say Eli's his kinkiest character, so yeah, he's open to whatever isn't gross or doesn't hurt you.

S = Stamina (how many rounds can they go for? how long do they last?)

Oh he's got a lot of stamina, he can go at least three rounds, but if he's pent up he'll go around four or five.

T = Toys (do they own toys? do they use them? on a partner or themselves?)

I don't think he'd have any toys like vibrators or dildos, but i think that he would maybe like to put you on a chastity belt.

U = Unfair (how much they like to tease)

I think he loves to tease you, he strikes me as the type to just like to tease you a lot, and as i have said before and will say again, he's really repressed and that also translates into sex, will definitely degrade you and tease you.

V = Volume (how loud they are, what sounds they make, etc.)

He is very loud, i think that he is as passionate about sex as he is about preaching, he doesn't hold back and everything that he represses in his life he lets out during this two, he will groan, moan, whimper and cry out shamelessly, and you love it.

W = Wild card (a random headcanon for the character)

I think he wants to be dominated, that's what he is mist ashamed of, he would like you to be rough with him.

X = X-ray (let’s see what’s going on under those clothes)

I think his cock is long and not very girthy, but slightly curved up about 6.5 or 7 inches and uncut.

Y = Yearning (how high is their sex drive?)

Pretty high, he is quite young so his libido is definitely high. You two will definitely fuck inside his church very early in the morning or very late at night, i hc you guys have done it almost everywhere bc of how horny this little fucker is.

Z = Zzz (how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)

He'll slowly start falling asleep, as i said, if he has feelings, he will fall asleep with you on his chest, but if he doesn't he falls asleep pretty quickly.

Thank you for reading! ❤️

[the-somewhat-rambling-reviewer]

Teen Wolf (2023) Movie Thoughts (Mostly Ranting)

Mainly, I'm disappointed.

First here are the things I'm neutral about/did like:

I honestly thought Liam was Stiles at first. It could just be me, but Sprayberry strongly resembles O'Brien, and Liam came across more like a mature, collected Stiles than a grown Liam in that first scene.

For all the issues I have with Derek's storyline, I did like both the writing and the acting presented dad!Derek. I liked the fact Derek is helping out law enforcement when there's fires being set around Beacon Hills.

Unfortunately, this is pretty much all I liked, and to be clear, mistaking Liam for Stiles is something I'm neutral about. I didn't particularly care one way or another about Liam in the movie, and I was fine with Stiles not being in the movie.

Liam's girlfriend is another thing I'm neutral about. I'm not going to hate on an actress for accepting a job when another actress was done dirty. I didn't dislike this new character, but I didn't see anything that made me interested in her, either.

Now onto what I didn't like.

For all I liked dad!Derek, it rubbed me the wrong way that there was no mention at all of Eli's mother. It seemed pretty clear to me that Eli was Derek's biological son, and so, this is not a case of single Derek adopting a kid, which, I'd be totally down for.

Look, was he married? Is he divorced? As much as I usually hate the trope of dead mothers, is she dead? Did he have a one-night stand, and she handed the baby over with explicit instructions to never contact her? Did he get involved with another horrible woman, and there's a court order stating that, if she comes within hundred feet of Beacon Hills before Eli is eighteen, she'll be arrested?

Moving on, I could unhappily accept complete lack of Corey, but Mason as a cop?

No.

Nope.

Uh-uh.

This is like if Lydia was a deputy.

Bear with the jumbled way I try to express this.

Sheriff Stilinski and Parrish are both intelligent men. In this universe, maybe, BLM doesn't even need to be a thing, because, the justice system is largely fair and about actually protecting people.

If so, then, the police would be essentially a blue-collar job, and I absolutely do not intend to demean honest, hard-working blue-collar workers.

Mason had an insanely high GPA, he genuinely loved science, was a bonafide bookworm, and there were hints he was from an upper-middle-class background.

If he decided on the justice system, he'd be a lawyer or some type of specialist, but I really doubt he'd decide on the justice system in the first place.

He wasn't particularly athletic, and while he wasn't one to naturally challenge authority, he wasn't one who would try to uphold authority, either. Yes, he wanted to help people, to protect them, but he was more, 'let's figure this out so that I can get back to kissing my boyfriend, working on my grades, and learning all this cool stuff about my friends,' than anything.

But moving on, I wish I could have liked the Ethan mention, but it's not great when a person goes to a dangerous place to put themselves in danger without telling their significant other, and it's even worse when they decide to do all this despite knowing that their significant other has big, big problems with them doing so.

Assuming Ryan Kelley or whoever that bare-bottom belonged to was okay with their naked bottom being shown and touched on TV, then, yay for equal opportunity fanservice, but ugh to Parrish/Malia.

Ugh to Malia apparently going by the surname Hale now.

I could have been on-board with Harris' return, but the movie had to frell that up.

I accepted a long time ago that Harris being Jackson's biological father wouldn't happen, but it's canon that Harris showed genuine concern, possibly even affection, for Jackson.

And of course, his motivation is that, like almost all the villains, whether correct in doing so or not, he blames Scott for his pain and suffering.

I wouldn't say Adam Fristoe was bad, he does seem to be a good actor, but aside from all my problems with Harris' role, I felt as if Fristoe was playing a way different character than Harris ever was.

Random, but when I first the line, "They call me Mister Tibbs," I thought, 'But the character is a detective.'

I had a similar thing when Peter referred to Deaton as 'Mister' Deaton. He is a licensed veterinary doctor.

The thing is, I honestly don't think this was a race thing with Deaton, but that's where my mind went.

Finally, onto Allison.

This had the potential to be great, but it wasn't.

Erica and Boyd were never brought up. So, everyone going on about how Allison wouldn't harm a fifteen-year-old boy- how old was Boyd when Chris himself said, paraphrased, 'Caught came awfully close to kill.'? Erica was sixteen when Allison shot an arrow at her whilst she was lying on the ground from another arrow shot.

Whether Allison ever truly felt bad for contributing to Erica's death or whether she was just horrified she became this person she recognised as immoral due to manipulation was, arguably, never made clear in the series.

That could have been explored. Has everything made her a coldly practical person who is determined never to cross certain moral lines and to follow this path of being a warrior, or is she a passionate, empathetic person who is trying to heal from the mistakes she wishes she could take back but knows she can't?

Chris had a line about how he'd kill to protect a fifteen-year-old boy, but whether he actually did hold a gun to Scott's head to get Allison to agree to stop seeing Scott or that was unreliable narration, he did do a lot of other things to make it clear that teenage shifters were lesser in his eyes.

And I'm still convinced, if he could have, he would have locked Lydia in his basement after her fugue state until she either died from a combination of starvation, dehydration, and possibly infection, or until she turned, whereupon he either would have killed her or secretly deposited her in Eichen's.

In the end, it was all about Scott/Allison, not about Allison rediscovering/reclaiming herself.

This is minor, but Scott not knowing what 'wistful' means was stupid. I didn't buy that.

That's all for now.

Fin.

[thatssonanii]

FML

Bloodline Family Series Shorties

Whistling to herself, Nola straightened up their kitchen from her and Eli's lunch. She had already put the leftover food away, filled the dishwasher and cleaned the counters. Only thing left was sweeping. She moved around the kitchen, sweeping and whistling, until one of her thoughts made her pause.

"What the hell?" She said softly to herself. "Uhn uhn, no."

From the living room, Eli could hear her and started trying to remember if he had done something. A small chuckled left his lips when he realized the two of them were just like his parents. His dad would do something and his mom would realize it in the middle of doing something, long after his dad did it. This was the life he always wanted, it felt good to be this happy.

Dropping the broom, Nola pulled her phone from the pocket of Eli's sweats she wore. She scrolled through her apps until she found the one she was looking for. Saying a small prayer that was more like a threat, she opened it and searched.

"Fuck my life."

Eli grinned a little hearing her groan and the broom hit the floor. Showtime.

She stormed into the living room, tossing her phone into his lap then started to hit him with a decorative pillow. Laughing, Eli grabbed her phone and stood up trying to block the hits.

"Whoa, whoa, Mayweather. At least tell me what I did first."

Nola mocked him then hit him again.

"You know what you did, Elijan! You know why you're getting hit!"

"For once, I actually don't," he laughed dodging another hit. "Just tell me, La."

"Look at my phone! Look at it!"

Eli chuckled looking at the app she had pulled up. "I don't understand what this had to do with," his voice trailed off for a moment, "Oh...oh. Oh!"

"Oh my ass! You little shit, you knew!" She accused hitting him again.

"This time, I didn't know cause if I did, you would've known sooner." He joked grabbing the pillow tossing it aside. "Would you stop hitting me so I can hug you."

She waited for him to put his arms around her then bit his nipple. He pulled pulled back with a hiss and rubbed the area.

"What the hell? Did you just bite my nipple?" He laughed.

"Yes," she pouted, "You did what Dad did to Mama to me!"

"Uuuuh," he stared strangely at her, "Marry her, love her, take care of her, make her laugh ... stop me when I get to the right one."

"You put a mini you in me! Now I have to suffer the way she has being overrun with boys!" Nola cried.

Cautiously, Eli moved closer to her and pulled her into a hug, praying she didn't bite him again. He didn't know the mood swings would happen this fast but he would handle it accordingly.

"We don't even know if you're actually pregnant yet let alone a mini handsome ass me, just breathe."

Nola pulled away a little to glare at him.

"I haven't had a period since before valentine's day, Elijan. It was due the week after valentine's and the bitch never showed up. This makes month three without her raggedy ass showing up."

"Shit. Well ... we don't know if it's a boy yet, babe. Aren't you happy? We were just talking about babies and you said how much you wanted one."

Nola"s nose crinkled and she started to ugly cry again catching him off guard.

"I know but I don't wanna be like Mama. You get on my nerves enough."

He chuckled kissing her forehead. "That's so nice of you to say."

"I hate you," she cried into his chest.

"Love You too, babe," he joked rubbing her back, "This is the fourth time I've ever seen you cry. Ever. Kinda scary, kinda cool. Will this be an every day thing? I wanna be sure everybody else gets to experience it too."

Eli moved away from the hug, laughing, before she could hit him. He couldn't help how loud he laughed when he saw her glaring at him. After a few moments, her glare turned into a chuckle.

"Mama was right ... you really are like Dad."

"Awwe, he'd be so happy to hear that, babe. Make sure you tell em."

[chicken-wayng]

@heir-to-the-commander so here's what I'm picturing:

Alicent Hightower has fought her entire life. Fought to provide for her younger brother, Gwayne. Fought to support her mother's ailing health. Fought men who thought they had a right to her. You'd think because her father is Otto Hightower (Terry Silver for the sake of this AU) he'd be able to provide for his family but because he's Otto Hightower he only cares about them as far as he can use them.

Rhaenyra Targaryen has fought her entire life. Fought to be seen as more than their sex. Fought to be seen as more than the rich Mean Girl (which she is, but he's also Rhaenyra). Fought men who thought they had a say in their life. You'd think because her father is Viserys Targaryen (a type of Daniel Larusso/Kreese combination so he's powerful, well-known, rich and evil) that Rhaenyra wouldn't have to struggle for every drop of power she has but because he's Viserys Targaryen he doesn't see the weakness he sows.

That's just the base, this part is one of those easily changeable parts for others but if I was gonna write this, this is how it'd go:

Viserys loses Aemma and their son Baelon in a car wreck. Baelon isn't more than 5 when this happens, but he did have a babysitter: Alicent, Rhaenyra's best friend. Otto is still Viserys' second hand man, but like his vice-CEO or whatever, and ofc he's still plotting (he wouldn't be Otto without it). Alicent and Rhaenyra are 17 when this happens, and like in the show Otto forces Alicent to "comfort him." Like in the show, Alicent follows his words to a T: she reads to him and provides him a person to listen to him "instead of simply hearing, like too many people do." So when the company/whatever urges Viserys to marry again ofc he picks Alicent again.

During the two years that she's been comforting him, Rhaenyra and her have grown apart. Alicent feels guilty around her and wishes her best friend would ask her what's wrong so that she could tell her, but Nyra never asks - never notices. Rhaenyra has been caught up hiding their relationship with Criston (A Miguel of sort) and wishes to tell their best friend but can't - because Criston is one of those Uber religious boys that swore to lose his v card after marriage because he was raised in a Catholic Orphanage and Nyra respects that so he doesn't get evicted.

That's all I really have but I'd also find a way to include non incest versions of Daemon/Laenor, Lucemond and Helaena/Baela because I like them (and I hate myself for it so there's no need to express your own💀). I picture Daemon as a kind of Johnny and Laenor as Daniel. Lucemond would be Eli/Demetri and Helaela would be Moon/Aisha

Cobra Kai × HOTD AU

There's a lot of ways to do this (Rhaenicent as Lawrusso being a very strong contender) but for this AU Rhaenicent would be SamTory. Sam is Rhaenyra and Alicent is Tory - don't ask me to elaborate

[fuckyeahjuliankeller]

i know cobra kai was a month ago, but i need to talk about robby keene on main really quick. long post incoming!

every single action that robby has taken over the course of the show has been out of revenge or spite, and has been fueled by bitterness. all the way until kenny payne shows up, and all the way until the end of the show, when robby finally faces johnny as a son rather than as an opponent.

i think the most interesting thing we see out of robby this season are the two starkly contrasting sides of him.

there's the robby from season one, the snarky one who has a heart, the one that only shows up in moments when he realizes who he is-- or, more aptly, who he was. we see that robby show up when he's training kenny, genuinely rooting for his success. we see it with tory, with the admission that he's there for her first and foremost. and finally, we see it at the very end of the season. we see it when robby confronts kenny in the locker room, regretful of his own teachings twisting kenny down the same path as him when that was the opposite of his intention.

in that moment that he faces kenny, robby sees the other side of himself. we see that blank-faced, set-jawed version of robby emerge from the flames of kreese and silver's cobra kai. we see robby as the face of cobra kai karate, the epitome of the soldier that kreese wanted with the pure ruthlessness that silver fueled. we see that facade cover any sign of any type of outward weakness clearly as soon as he steps onto the mat at the competition, we see it in his moments of anger. and kenny sees it, too. kenny sees robby like that, not like whatever robby thought was visible beneath the veneer of cruelty. he admits he was forced to look in the mirror, and what he saw was everything he'd hated from the very beginning, the reason that miyagi-do teachings resounded so strongly with him.

robby lost to hawk because hawk found his balance. hawk's drive was to embrace himself, to prove that he, eli moskowitz, was one and the same as hawk. robby had both teachings, but he was bitter to the core, and incorporated miyagi-do into cobra kai out of spite-- the opposite of what such teachings were meant for. he lost fairly because the sight of kenny egging him on broke his cobra kai facade, and he wasn't used to fighting without its protection. he deserved that loss, he needed it, and that led to the final scene.

now, i'm not excusing robby from anything. this season, he was the worst of cobra kai. he exhibited cruelty, spite, bitterness, vengeance. he showed no outward regret for anything, not even miguel's injury (which could have been erroneous writing, but for the purposes of this post i'll say it keeps right in time with robby being the perfect picture of cobra kai— no mercy and no apologies), and when he looked in the mirror, he could see what that had done to him.

him going to johnny was not for forgiveness, nor was it to accept johnny as his father. instead, it was, for once, to let go of some of those traits that exhausted him. johnny was, symbolically, where robby's cobra kai road had begun, and in kind, he guarded the fork in the road where robby could divert his path.

so yeah. some interesting stuff! i might get into all the details of the kenny and robby dynamic and its parallels in a separate post, but the biggest thing i wanted to yell about this season was the fact that robby became the essence of cobra kai, showing how destructive it was to be at the peak of both kreese and silver's teachings.

time yielded <3

[marvelous-imagines]

Please

Eli "hawk" moskowitz x reader

Request: ok! if you get too busy or don’t like the idea you don’t have to do it...but would it be possible for you to do a Miguel or Hawk imagine where the reader and him (either boy is either) get into a fight and they accidentally hit the reader cause of ✨karate✨and then they have to apologize and stuff and maybe it’s like...fluffy idk...if you don’t want to do it that’s fine! No pressure! <3

Warnings: language. Angst. And fluff at the end because I'm all soft for eli����

Tag: @klt123456

You stormed into your boyfriends bedroom slamming the door, face flushed with anger while you pace the room. Eli watched you with a cold hard stare, arms crossed as he huffs out a un-amused chuckle.

"shouldn't I be the one pissed? Considering you're the one who was hanging around that jerk!?" hawk growls, causing you to scoff and shake your head. "you was flirting with that - that asshole! All night!" he yells, walking closer to you.

You only roll your eyes and glare at him. Thankful his mother wasn't home to hear his loud yelling, "I wasn't flirting with him! I was hardly even talking to the guy!" you retort, voice raised as you stare at him, watching his anger grow. "and what words I did say to was about me and you Eli!" you tell the truth, for you told the random guy about eli and your relationship.

But the man who your boyfriend claimed you to be flirting with was insistent with his flirting toward you, one of the reasons you waved Eli over in the first place. But he was a stubborn hard headed hot head after he joined that karate class he always tells you about.

"then why the hell did he have his hands all over you? Why did you let him do that!?" eli yells stalking closer to you, his eye's alight with anger, rage rolling off him in burning waves. You actually felt a little intimidated by him and let your anger soften a little, trying to calm down.

"I didn't. That's what you're not understanding!" you spoke through gritted teeth. The man just slung a arm over your shoulder and started getting a little too friendly for your liking. Why you waved your boyfriend over.

"what you're not understanding is that you shouldn't have even talked to the asshole in the first place!" he exclaimed, clearly getting even angrier. You sigh deeply and shake your head.

"I'm going home until you calm down..." you say calmy, heading for the door until he graps your wrist and spins you around, hard blue eye's glaring down at you.

"you're not leaving until this is settled!" you huff out a frustrated breath, fed up with his attitude.

"there's nothing to settle Eli, not until you stop being a childish asshole" you said, venom dripping from your voice as you angrily pry his fingers from your wrist, in a attempt to leave. But when you done so he done some sort of move making you flip and land on his floor hard on your back, the wind knocked from your lungs. You stare up at your boyfriend with a frightened, betrayed look. This was not your Eli... Eli would never do something like this to you, at least you thought.

When you met his gaze, his blue eye's was wide with a horrified expression. He was quick to crouch down beside you, reaching for you. But you backed away, standing up and running out fthe door. You heard Eli yelling for you, pleading for you to talk... But you left his house. Tears swelling in your eye's.

You wasn't hurt, you pissed he'd do that, you was pissed at cobra Kai for corrupting your sweet shy Eli into an ignorant asshole who thought karate was the key to fixing everything. Like tonight at that stupid party he dragged you to, if your shy sweet Eli saw a man flirting with you, he'd take you home and calmy tell you what he was feeling, taking care of the situation calmy, he'd see you push the jerk away and cling to his side as you reassure him he was the only man for you.... But the new Eli... Hawk, he saw everything different, he saw the man wrap a arm around you and assumed you was madly in love with the stranger, he saw the chance to use his flashy new fighting skills and took it. Showing off his new self. You hated it.

A solid week went by with you ignoring Eli, not answering his calls or texts, distancing yourself from him at school or anywhere you saw him actually. You even had to ignore poor Miguel because he tried getting you to talk to Eli. But you didn't want to, not after what he done.

That's how you ended up walking home alone from school, bag slung over your shoulder as you kept your eyes glued to the sidewalk. But the sound of approaching footsteps caught your attention, you look behind you to see aisha. She walks beside you steadily. You sigh and already know what she's hear for....

"look, I have no idea what happened between you and hawk... But maybe you should try talking to him? He's really upset, he's even missing karate class" you look over at her as you stopped walking. That was a bit of shock, Eli skipping lessons like that.

"he's not been showing up for his lessons?" you ask, a curious brow lifted at her.

She nods, "he hasn't showed up for a week now, even sensei Lawrence is concerned about him, maybe you should call hawk, try working things out?" aisha told you. But you wasn't gonna forgive Eli that easily, just because he was skipping karate doesn't mean you'd forgotten what he done to you.

"maybe sensei Lawrence should give him a call, because I'm not letting Eli forget his mistake that easily" you grumbled, aisha sighs and follows you to your house.

"what did he even do? It can't be that bad!?" she said a little loudly as you got ahead of her. You stopped walking again, nearly home as you grip your backpack strap hard.

"he freaking body slammed me aisha! It's pretty bad" you state with frustration. Aisha's eyes widen as she catches up with you.

"why the hell did he do that?" she asks, starting to side with you on this one. You opened your mouth to answer her but no noise came out, you stared at your porch steps at where the familier man sat, his head resting in his hands as he bounced his knee, his anxiety getting the best of him.

You groan and March over to him, trying to ignore him as you head for the steps, but he stood up fastly and looks at you with big pleading eye's, his expression one of pain and regret. You felt your heart ache for him, for you remember this look on him all to well, the nights you spent holding him in your arms as kids words from school about the scar on his lip got to him...

You push those thoughts away and try to pass him, but he stops you gently, his shaky hand softly grasping your hand. You yank your hand from his grasp causing his heart to break right there, his eye's showing the defeated pained look that action caused.

"get out of my way hawk... Go home or whatever" you grumbled quietly while staring at him with a look over anger.

He sighs, a little frown on his face. He knew he messed up big time when you called him hawk, something you never called him, ever. "I'm sorry y/n, I'm so sorry for what I did. I didn't mean to do that... It was a reflex -

"don't go making excuses for practically body slamming me hawk, now move and get lost" you try and make him leave by putting up a angery facade. But it obviously wasn't working.

"please y/n! I'm sorry, what I did was stupid, how I was acting that night was stupid and nothing will ever make up for what I did, I know that but..." he sighs, looking down as his lip trembles. Pain embracing your heart at the sight, you hated seeing Eli cry...

"I can't leave without you y/n, I know that sounds cliché... But it's true, I didn't realize how enjoyable life was when you were in it... But when you left? When you're gone... It's miserable, a living hell because I can't stand not hearing you're voice or seeing you're face - I miss you y/n, so fucking much it's killing me not being near you... Please just give me a another chance " he spoke with tears slowly falling from his blue eye's. This was Eli, not hawk the big badass karate champ, but sweet, sympathetic, vulnerable Eli moskowitz. "please" he muttered.

You stare at him, eye's roaming his face. You look into his blue eye's, the eye's you've gazed in for nearly 3 years. You look over his adorable nose you've made a habit of kissing whenever he'd get stressed or frustrated over anything the action always melting his heart. Then lastly you look over the scar on his lip, the scar he hated with a passion. You've placed many kisses on that scar, telling him it wasn't seen as a flaw in your eye's, but a beauty mark, something that made him characteristic. All of that took place in the years before he went to Cobra Kai. The years you both was madly in love...

"eli... I'll never forget what happened that night, you acted like a total asshole, you overreacted over something stupid because you let anger and jealousy get the best of you, and you hurt me. Not only emotionally, but physically and that's something I'll never forget" you said with a through growing frustration. Eli's eye's already showing the way his heart was shattering at what he thought was you breaking up with him.

"but... That doesn't mean I'm just going to leave you, sure I may be angry but I'll never stop loving you Eli....but if you ever pull a stunt like that one more time... I won't be as forgiving." you say while giving him a serious look.

Hope fulls his eye's while he gives you a ghost of a smile. "it will never happen again, I swear y/n I'll never let no one hurt you, not even myself" he muttered. You sigh and walk closer to him. Delicately cupping his cheeks as you look up into his eyes, you then lean in and kiss his nose. His eyes fluttering closed as he let's a breath escape his lips.

"I love you Eli, I'll always love you and only you" you murmur as a smile tugs at your lips. His eye's open again as he smiles down at you.

"I'll always love you too babe, I'm sorry for being such an asshole...." he looks down as his smile turns to a frown. You make him look up at you by tilting his head up.

"let's put it behind us Eli, there's no point on dwelling in the past when there's a future ahead of us" you say, knowing guilt was eating away at him for what he done. And sure, you was still bothered by what he done... You knew he had alcohol in his system and wasn't thinking straight. And like he said, you knew it was a reflex.... Why hold one mistake on the man?

"okay..." he muttered with a smile, you smiled back and kissed the scar on his lip. He melts in your touch, while you both just stood there.

And as months went by, Eli stayed True to his word. He didn't let anyone hurt you, not even himself. He showed others hawk when you wasn't around, but when you was by his side. He was the shy sweet Eli you had fallen in love with.

[dandylion240]

1,12,15,21,40, 50 for Eli please

1. What is your character’s reaction to a minor inconvenience? Such as getting their jumper caught on a door handle?

It actually depends upon the situation. If he's just at home relaxing it doesn't really bother him. However if he snagged his clothes on something right before going on stage it'll cause him quite a lot of anxiety. He'd worry about having what the tabloids like to call 'a wardrobe malfunction'.

12. Are they an overall healthy person? Do they make for a good patient or a terror

Overally he's a pretty healthy. He does have anxiety issues and depression due to being bullied in high school.

15. What is the first thing people notice about them?

His large green eyes. Then his fashion style. He has a tendency to mix masculine and feminine fashion together. Plus his favorite color is pink and he tends to wear a lot of it now even though he avoided the color while in high school and tended to be more emo after a certain incident happened to avoid any repeat situations. His on stage persona is a reflection of his emo alter ego.

21. What would be one item that they would hate to lose most?

He may claim to hate Awan for leaving him without saying goodbye but he carries around this picture of them together in his wallet. He never goes anywhere without it.

40. Your character’s friend has just been mugged. What’s their reaction?

He go to his friend to make sure they were alright then he'd offer to stay with them or they could come and stay with him. He'd want to make sure they were alright and do everything he could to make sure they felt safe. He'd want the mugger caught but he'd feel the best thing he could offer is moral support when his friend talked to the police then trying to hunt them down on his own.

50. How does your sleep at night? Are they a heavy or light sleeper? Do they dream or have nightmares? Do they find it easy to sleep or are they more a night owl?

He doesn't sleep well and when he does sleep it's mostly nightmares so he tries not to sleep much. He drinks an excessive amount of energy drinks to avoid falling asleep.

[undercoverhunter-elijah]

Eli hadn't actually thought about the fact that he really had done something insane. He'd jumped on a grenade to save Trevor. There were reasons why he had acted without thinking. Why that had been the response he'd had when the other man had been in danger. But they weren't things he could think about deeply yet. Not yet. He'd never done anything like that for anyone. Even kin. It had never occurred to him to do something so selfless for another person. Because he'd always been a selfish, scheming, survivor.

The wolf says nothing when Trevor speaks and gives them a long beat before he turns it on its head and takes the teeth out of it. He smiles, thankful at how Trevor responded. He nodded his head. "You found me out Angel. I'm idiot noddle-sexual." His smile turned into a grin as he added, "But that's just cuz I make those pretty little wings flap." Eli laughed out loud when Trevor said that boobs wouldn't look good on him. "I guess I'll call the plastic surgeon and tell him to cancel the boob job I had planned."

Eli very nearly growled at Trevor's teasing little comments. But he kept his cool even if his brain was now imagining all the things he was going to do to Trevor once the Elysian was back up to his regular strength. Making Trevor unable to walk again sounded right up their alley, pun intended.

Eli hadn't left Trevor's side and just ridden out the high on his own for the most part. He hadn't trusted himself around too many people when he was full of Elysian blood. But now that Trevor was awake he wouldn't feel guilty catching up with the handful of people that really mattered. He hadn't seen them on any casualty lists. The wolf nods when Trevor says no one would be coming to the house, which made him relax a little. He snorted when Trevor said he didn't have to go inside. "Shut up. I ain't letting you limp in there on your own." But he hated the Chateau. And he had avoided it at all costs. But he wasn't going to let Trevor go along either. His discomfort he knew was palpable. But he could handle his shit.

The wolf's face was carefully blank. Dressed like he would if he was going to work as private security. Eli didn't look or acknowledge any of the prisoners. Not wanting to be recognized by anyone. Probably not but the chances were never zero in this cesspit. Another reason why he stayed out of the Chateau. Only when one prisoner actually had the balls to reach out and try and touch Trevor, Eli broke two fingers, a warning flash of green wolf eyes. Eli set himself up against the wall of the room that was probably once a torture chamber, crossing his arms. God, he hated this place. Looking at the poor fucking wretches that had been lined up.

He'd seen Trevor fight before. He'd even seen Trevor kill before. And nearly kill. But this was something he'd never seen. Less of an angel and more a hawk. The only thing that Eli is grateful for is that none of the three are human. They were traitors. But so was he. So many times over. And if he'd ever been caught. If he ever was caught. He'd be lucky to get a death as fast as this one. It was brutal, bloody and perfunctory. But there was something sick and beautiful about the look on Trevor's face with the blood smeared lips. He'd never seen what Elysian's could do if they didn't stop feeding. And it gave him an uncomfortable impression of a vampire for just a moment. As he watched Trevor crush bone with his teeth he thought about what they felt like in his own skin, how very different. This was the man he'd saved. And even watching the gory display Eli knew that he would've done it again. Because even this grotesque display didn't change how he felt for the Elysian. The thought surprised him and worried him.

"Nah! I know the real reason was because you were trying to impress me———" He says as he feels the wolf's uneasiness, but doesn't want to bring it to attention, because it'd make things worse. A part of Trevor wonders if Eli struggles more with the temporary loss of his limbs, of the nature of his actions back then. Truth is, Trevor would help any citizens within the city, but only for a handful would he risk his life this way. And he's well aware that giving his blood to the wolf like he had, had been a dangerous gamble. Not that it would've killed him, but he could've remained in a coma far longer than he had.

Trevor grins. "You can say it, you know———I won't judge you." And there, he lets it linger in the air for a second, like he expects Elijah to say he prefers men, but then, he adds; "We both know you like me a lot more. Me and my amazing ass and mouth. You'd be a fool to like like this angel noodle better!" Trevor teases. The client knows that the wolf still struggles with his sexuality, but strangely enough, he seems more at ease to talk about his attraction for him, at least when they're alone. As he has no clue of the kind of conversation Elijah has with Cassidy now that the older man knows. "They don't... Boobs wouldn't look good on you. I very much prefer the salt and pepper hairiness on your chest." He winks at the younger man.

The elysian snorts at seeing the wolf getting riled up by his comment. "You can spank me all you want when I'm all healed. You know I like it rough. And something tells me I'll still be bed ridden for completely different reasons." He'll still have to call work, and check how things are going. To think Covaire City had been forced to go through another war. Trevor actually wonders if the Alpha had retaliated already—hunting down all the remaining citizens of Northern Light City yet.

"Ah———yeah, that would explain it." He can only imagine how it must have felt to deal with trauma and being hyper at the same time. It saddens him that he couldn't be there for Eli during that time, but at least, he knows - or hopes - that Cassidy was there for the younger man. He thanks Eli for the phone, and shakes his head. "No, I meant once the siphoning starts, I'll be all good quite rapidly. Also, no, no one is coming here. You and Cassidy is more than enough. I don't need anyone getting nosy about my family's house anytime soon." He pauses for a moment then. "If you don't want to go inside, I get it." Then he calls the Château, and talks with Deputy Warden Price. Luckily for him, they do still have prisoners of the war to be executed, but not just people from the other city, but from Covaire City, who'd turned against them, and those were worse than their enemies really.

Once they get there, Trevor makes his way inside with Eli at his side. He's not too weak that he cannot walk, but it's clear that he's beyond tired. Some prisoners flirt with him, or Eli, or the both of them, obviously wanting time away from here after the shit show that had taken place, but the elysian isn't interested in any of that. All he wants, is to really feel alive again. They get to a room, with three prisoners he'd paid for. He doesn't even try to say anything, and just goes for the mage first. The way he bites them is far from sexy—he bites into their skull, crushing it, and a moment later, the mage falls limp to the floor completely drained of their life just as Trevor sighs, an intoxicated smile on his blood stained lips.

[crimson-wrld]

What about "Whump woo woo"?

I think this is the first thing I started writing after discovering the whumpblr community. I was planning maybe a little miniseries or something so that's why the characters are named. Also, of course, it's a kidnapping plot lmao

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He was going to come back to base and apologize, just after a walk, like he always does. He wanted to cool off first before he made everything worse. Eli knew he could be childish sometimes, and thats what he hated the most; the fact that everything his older brother had said to get under his skin was true. 

He was the youngest on the team- and he was, and always had been, in his brother's shadow. No matter what he did, he was always compared, told he should be more like Tobi- like being himself was never enough. Even now, on the team, he always felt like some looks and glances said more than they actually spoke.  

Hed said some stuff he shouldn't have, but then again, so had Tobi.

He just wanted a moment alone to sulk to himself, to battle with the tears that threatened to fall from his eyes. The team really could do better without him. If he wasn't the little brother of the second command then he'd surely be kicked out and replaced without a second thought. 

So he kept walking, kicking a little pebble in front of him and wiping his eyes. He had yelled at his brother back and his brother probably wasn't crying like a baby as he was right now. He would turn around, and go back, make it look like he'd never been crying at all, tell his brother he was sorry, and hide away in the training room, pushing himself to be better until he couldn't feel his limbs anymore. That's what he always does, and he wasn't going to change it now.

Though, he hadn't expected to be interrupted mid step by a bag being shoved over his face, invading his nostrils with the pungent smell of citrus.

"Hey-" Eli tried to speak, but he was yanked backwards by the bag, falling onto his back, which knocked the air from his lungs. He'd fallen into the bushes next to the trail he was previously walking, landing on top of someone's legs. 

His arms flailed up, trying to rip the bag so he could breathe. The person huffing above him grabbed them though, and swiftly turned him onto his stomach, tying his wrists together while wrestling him into the dirt.

"What the fuck!?" He yelled out, panicked, heart thumping in his chest and legs kicking to get this mystery person off of him. The branches of the bushes scratched his arms, leaving little prickles of blood and peeled skin behind.

"Shut up." A gruff voice said above him, using one hand 

((It literally just ends there mid sentence 😂 but I think they were going to gag him))

[demetriandelibinaryboyfriends]

I loved your hc about how insecure demetri would be after everything that went down. He'd probably try to hide it but I don't think he'd ever quite shake the feeling that Eli is embarrassed of him.

RIGHT??? Like man...imagine your best friend of YEARS, who’s been the ONLY person basically your whole life to love and indulge your geeky interests equally as much as you and the only person who you can TALK to about the things you love and the only person your age who seems to actually like...enjoy your company at all, and then basically overnight they do a complete 180 and all the stuff you both used to love and have bonded over your whole lives is just “dumb nerd shit” to them now, and they’re constantly berating and mocking you for being a “wimpy pussy” just because...you’re not that physically strong??? You don’t like being slugged in the face and given a bloody nose by a grown man??? And you’re just like...since when did any of that matter to them??? Weren’t the “jock” types who are ripped and tough always the kinds of people you two hated, the types of people who shoved their weight around and bullied both of you for no reason? Why are they buying into the exact kind of ideology that got both of you abused by your classmates for no reason for years??? And all that stuff you used to both love, of course??? Now they gotta act like it’s stupid and below them, all to seem “cool.” All to fit into this mold of a person you BOTH once thought you’d feel nothing but hate and disdain for. But none of that matters anymore, now that they’re in with the very crowd that once made both of your lives hell.

And hell, even the genuine excitement you get to feel at making a brand new friend for the first time in years is short-lived, because fuck, he’s in this insane karate cult too, led by a psycho and bully who makes the same exact comments about your best friend’s lip as the school bullies said best friend wants so badly to fight back against. And he won’t outright say it, but maybe your new friend doesn’t think you have any value either if you’re not strong and badass, and maybe he regrets befriending you after he realized all you even are is just a wimpy nerd. You don’t know what it is that he and your best friend talk about in their karate cult--maybe how lame you are? Maybe how you’re utterly pathetic, and a waste of space? Maybe how now that they have tough fighter friends, they have no reason to put up with you anymore? And your new friend seems to have no problem with his concerning senseis and their aggravated assault tendencies--he certainly wasn’t a lot of help when you literally got assaulted by one. Honestly, you must just be an embarrassment to both of them at this point, but especially your best friend, a skilled fighter with cool spiky hair who’s got no reason to want to associate with a scrawny, wimpy weirdo nerd anymore.

(This is no actual shade at my boy Miguel btw!!! He had plenty of his own issues to deal with during the whole Demetri/Hawk falling out, and seemed like he was kind of left out of the loop as to how bad it was. But Demetri had no way of knowing that!!! Without Miguel saying otherwise, he probably assumed Miguel agreed with Hawk that he was lame and not worth their time :( )

Like honestly, screw the broken arm--I think what Hawk needs to really apologize and make up for in Season 4 is all his harassing and berating Demetri for being a “pussy” and a “nerd” because like...I’m betting that shit cut a lot deeper. Like here is the one person who never judged him for being scrawny and weak and geeky and uncool, the one person who was a safe space for Demetri to freely be the things that everyone else hated, and now that same person HATES him for these things. Demetri’s used to being hated and mocked for being weak and nerdy, but never by Eli. That was the one person who he felt he could have solidarity with--if they were suffering, they were always suffering together. And now not only is Eli gone, leaving him to suffer alone, Eli is the one dishing out the abuse. And Eli isn’t just mocking him for things he loves--Eli is using the knowledge of the things he loves against him and mocking him for things they both used to love. Eli is mocking him for things they both used to be--weak and unliked.

Like bruh. Having a close friend turn on me like that and not stop bashing me over all the very same things we bonded over for years??? That shit would fuck me up. Like...the psychological trauma would be unreal. I’d probably have some trust issues for a cool minute, like “does this person actually also like this thing I like, or are they pretending to like it so they can make fun of me about it and use it against me later???” And I think those kinds of mental scars are going to be a lot more rough for Demetri to deal with than having his arm in a cast for a few weeks. And Hawk has a LOT of atoning to do for that in particular, I think. I’m hoping we get to see him building Demetri up and encouraging him, both about his strength and his fighting skills and about how there’s nothing wrong with being into “nerd shit”!!!! I think Demetri needs some positive affirmation from Hawk more than anything, after so long of just being relentlessly torn down by him. Even if Hawk never outright apologizes for this specifically, I do still hope he’ll try to make it up to Demetri somehow. Because I’m honestly betting that at the end of the day, tearing Demetri apart verbally and using their joint past against him hurt a hell of a lot more than any beating Hawk ever gave to him. I think it’s going to be a long time yet before Demetri stops worrying that Hawk is still secretly embarrassed to have him around, and I can only hope Hawk can help soothe his fears about this as best he possibly can.

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The Falcon & The Winter Solider Episode 2 Review

When fans wanted more action with the right amount of drama, they got it. Spoilers ahead.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 2: The Star-Spangled Man started with the New Captain America through John Walker. He's been teased from episode 1 a lot of memes came out because the helmet did create a funny vibe - sort of like, he didn't fit for the Captain America role.

But this dude is a high-ranking military officer and was hand-picked by the US government. The show also gave a glimpse of Walker's doubts in preparation for his new role and how to embody Captain America. He knew that the suit comes with expectations from people. But with the support from his colleagues and his buddy Lemar Hoskins aka the Battlestar, he was ready for the job. Remember when Steve was starting being Captain America, he had a lot of celebrity moments, Walker had his fair share of parades and interviews.

This episode makes it more engaging because we had a lot of Bucky and Sam screen time. Yes, finally it's a reunion after the scene in Endgame when Steve passes on the shield to Sam. Bucky is still bitter though with Sam for giving up on the shield and now it's in the hand of a person they feel unworthy to follow the footsteps of Steve Rogers.

So with this reunion, Sam and Bucky followed a lead of the Flag Smashers in Munich c/o Torres (Sam's current sidekick). They confirmed that these groups are indeed super-soldiers. The duo had a great fight scene yet Marvel still able to sprinkle their punchlines without ruining the moment. They were almost defeated when to their surprise, appears John Walker in a full Captain America suit together with Battlestar. To Marvel comic fans, this is an easter egg though. Lemar Hoskins in the comics assumes the alias Bucky before taking the name Battlestar. Walker showed incredible ability working on Cap's shield. Even with their efforts, the Flag Smashers won and escaped.

Bucky told Sam that he'd like to meet someone. I was too excited I thought they gonna show that old Steve is alive but it turned out Marvel incorporated one controversial character - Isaiah Bradley. He is a product of the Super Soldier program and in the comics, he was known also as Black Captain America. There's a debate on this since it messed up the timeline in the comics if who was the first Captain America. But in the series, Bucky mentioned that Isaiah was part of the super-soldier program through HYDRA but did not mention being Captain America, and Steve is unaware of this too. Somehow they managed to fix the gap in this episode. We hope to learn more about him as the show goes on so this is really a good canon here. Going back to the scene, Isaiah was unhappy when he met Bucky and Sam especially when the duo mentioned the super-soldiers. We also saw Eli Bradley, Isaiah's grandson. Marvel is really doing great in planting their seeds for the Young Avengers since Eli took up the mantle as Patriot.

Sam and Bucky were arguing on the streets when cops saw them and did not recognize the duo were members of the Avengers. What I appreciate about this scene is they show the injustice of white cops in the US with black people until they recognize Sam as The Falcon. Since Bucky failed to attend his therapy session which was part of his pardon agreement, he was arrested.

At the police station, John Walker bailed Bucky out of jail in the hopes that he will work with him. Sam and Bucky were met by the latter's therapist and both had their couple's therapy session. It was revealed that Bucky was mad at Sam because if Steve failed to trust Sam to be worthy of the shield then the same trust and chance Steve gave him was a failure too.

Towards the end, Sam and Bucky are now on the same page. They hated the new Captain America and they did not want to work with him since there's a lot of rules tied to him. This feels like the Civil Wars vibe. Sam mentioned that their working style is more flexible since they are free agents.

Overall, this episode gave a lot of actions and new compelling characters from the comics with a complicated back story. Sam and Bucky's onscreen chemistry can choke the life out of me. The duo will see Zemo for intel and we will see him in episode 3. Sam did mention Sharon Carter being branded as the enemy of the state - maybe this was during her actions in Civil War. Hope to see her back in action in the coming episodes.

Lastly, I am very intrigued with the Flag Smashers, are they really the villain here? I think they are not the big bad wolf on this series and definitely to Sam's words, it's either with the Big 3 - Androids, Aliens, and Wizards.

What do you think about this episode. Let’s see them on the comments section.